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[Event "39th Olympiad Men"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2010.09.23"]
[Round "3.17"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D43"]
[WhiteElo "2721"]
[BlackElo "2751"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2010.09.21"]
[EventType "team"]
[WhiteTeam "FRA"]
[BlackTeam "ISR"]
{This game was played on the first board of the France-Israel match} 1. d4 {No Petroff, thanks!} d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4 7. e4 g5 8. Bg3 b5 {Maxime prefers this sharp anti-moscow gambit}
9. Be2 Bb7 10. h4 g4 11. Ne5 Rg8 12. Bxg4 Nbd7 13. Nxd7 Qxd7 14. Bf3 b4 (14...
c5 {was played 3 times in the Gelfand - Leko match last month, Gelfand was
white and scored 2,5/3. By playing b4 he probably wanted to avoid some home
preparation... but according to Rybka it's the best move and Maxime was ready})
15. Na4 c5 {attacking both white central pawns} 16. Nxc5 Bxc5 17. dxc5 Nxe4 18.
Qxd7+ Kxd7 19. O-O-O+ (19. Rd1+ Ke7 20. Bd6+ Ke8 $11) 19... Ke8 20. Bf4 Nxc5
21. Bxb7 Nxb7 22. Bxh6 Nc5 (22... Rxg2 23. Be3 {
and the Nb7 is not very impressive, but the h pawn is still ready to run}) 23.
Be3 Nd3+ 24. Kb1 Rxg2 25. h5 {in the interview after the game, Vachier-Lagrave
said he was prepared until there approximatively. White has sacrificed a pawn
to get the h-passed pawn} f5 {this move looks logical to come with the king}
26. h6 Kf7 27. h7 Rh8 {White played h5 h6 h7 but what to do now ?} 28. b3 $1 {
destabilizing the knight} e5 {black wants to stop Bd4 to take in f2} (28...
Nxf2 29. Rd7+ Ke8 (29... Kf6 $2 30. Rh6+ Rg6 31. Bd4+ e5 32. Bxe5+ Kxe5 33.
Rxg6 $18) 30. Rxa7 Nxh1 31. Ra8+ Kf7 32. Rxh8 Rh2 33. bxc4 Ng3 34. Bf4 Rh1+ 35.
Kc2 Ne2 36. Be5 f4 37. Kd2 Nc3 38. Bxf4 Rh5 39. Be5 $1 Ne4+ 40. Kd3 Nf2+ 41.
Kc2 Ng4 42. Bd6 $18) 29. bxc4 {Wath carefully this second passed pawn...} Nxf2 30. Bxf2 Rxf2 {
at first sight one could think this endgame is balanced} 31. c5 {
the sentence of this game is : passed pawns should be pushed !} Rf3 {
Boris knows since a very long time that rooks should be behind passed pawns,
so he is going to c3. But amazingly he is already dead lost!!} (31... e4 32. c6 e3 33. c7 e2 34. Rc1 $18) 32. c6 $18 (32. Rc1
$2 Rd3 33. c6 Rdd8 34. c7 Rc8 {beautiful picture :-) But it must be draw})
32... Rc3 33. Rd7+ Kg6 (33... Ke6 34. Rh6# {is unexpected !}) (33... Ke8 34.
Rg1 Rxc6 35. Rxa7 $18) 34. c7 {
impressive: 2 pawns reached the seventh rank after a mere 34 moves} f4 35. Rd6+
Kg7 36. Rg1+ Kf7 (36... Kxh7 37. Rh1+ Kg7 38. Rd7+ Kg8 39. Rd8+ Kg7 40. Rdxh8
$18) 37. Rd8 {Maxime still had 1 hour on his clock. Very few players can say
they defeated the ultra solid and experimented Boris Gelfand with so much ease.
} 1-0
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